Listening Post: Batch 557

Got away to the railroad tracks
By the river, on our backs
Look at the sky, it’s been so long
We are older but we’re acting young

Beautiful day to get away
Forget the job and the bills to pay
Laying under the sycamores
You are mine and I am yours
So let’s talk about... 
Where do we go from here?
Should we plan it out
Where do we go from here?

Stayin’ in and layin’ low
Try to do what’s apropo
Worry about the things I see
Just a plague of idiocy

A bunch of clowns took over the place
Need a plan B just in case
Gonna have to check my gut 
Brace myself for who knows what
Got me wondering 
Where do we go from here?
Doesn’t look too good
Where do we go from here?

Fell in love with someone who
Sees the world just like I do
Talked about some deeper shit
Really got down into it
We hit a groove and kept it going 
Giving space and getting along
Fast forward it up to today
We’re still together and turning gray
No need to ask, baby
Where do we go, where do we go from here?
I think we know, honey
Where do we go from here

Words and music by David F Wagoner

Fresh Candy

Where Do We Go?

Starsign

How far have i gone 
What is this road i’m on
That leads so far from home

Are you here with me now, 
Now that i need you, No, 
i lost you long ago

And I’m barely hanging on 
I need to find the way today
And darling, I miss you so
just give me a sign and lead the way

If it’s the last thing i do I’m coming home to you
back where i belong
I’ll find the way No matter what it takes
down this road so long
You don’t know what’s here till it's gone

In some other life, Or maybe a distant dream,
that i don’t quite recall
But I close my eyes, and i’m there it seems
where you and I had it all

The sound of the children play
And the dogs out in the yard  
The fragrant flowers bloom away
It all seems so near and yet so far

If It's The Last Thing I Do

Vedran - The Infinite Loop 2025

U& I

MISTER OF THE RINGS X IVANDRO X ISAAC DA BWALLA X WILLY CY AND LEANDRO BARRAS_093752.mp3

“ratcage walk” is an atmospheric journey through an imagined city where dusk settles over rain-soaked streets

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ratcage walk

Dj La Li Costa - We Get UP

Come Correct is the title track from the new EP from UK-based roots reggae band Dubwiser, set for release on 14th February 2025. Come Correct, co-written with Josh Wilkinson of Birmingham reggae stars KIOKO, is a horn heavy rallying call to push past self-doubt and to get after your dreams.

released January 24, 2025

Dubwiser is a four-piece band featuring singer Jonas Torrance, drummer and producer Spider J with the Sierra Leonian brothers John (guitar) and Eddy Smythe (bass and keys), who bring their signature powerhouse combo of West African grooves and blues stylings.

Come Correct

Hoping you don't break down when you have places to go and people to see. A song about fending off a panic attack. Features the most beautiful tape sample you've ever heard. The feeling has to be of utter peace x

I've been driving for miles
My hands wet on the wheel
My foot on the floor
My eyes on the road
But all these flashing lights

God I just can't break down
No I just can't break down
Because I've got places to go
I've got people to see
Who want to see me

My racing heart
My sweating brow
My heated head
My weakened knees

I just can't break down
No I just can't break down
I've got places to go
I've got people to see
Who want to see
Who want to see
Who want to see
Me

God I just can't break down
No I just can't break down
Because I've got places to go
I've got people to see
Who want to see
Who want to see
Who want to see
Me

Written and recorded by Danny Pullar
Piano played by Simon Badger
Main vocals and lead guitar recorded by Chris Wilson
Produced, MIxed and Mastered by Tim Cook

People to see

Lay Me Down

Alt Rock powerhouse ACROBVT are back with their uplifting new single, A Thousand Times, a song that celebrates resilience and determination in the face of adversity. 
Co-written with Ross Hamilton (Blossoms) and mixed by Grammy-nominated Mark Needham (The Killers, Imagine Dragons), the track is a soaring anthem that will further cement the band’s growing reputation as ones to watch in 2025.. 

Infused with ACROBVT’s signature mix of euphoric hooks, raw emotion, and driving rhythms, A Thousand Times delivers a powerful message of hope. “You have to find the strength to rise again, no matter how many times life knocks you down,” shares frontman Ben. “It’s a battle cry for anyone who’s ever faced a challenge and refused to give up.” 

Following their triumphant performances at The Great Escape in Brighton, Flux FM in Berlin, and Los Angeles, ACROBVT continue to solidify their place as one of the most electrifying alt rock acts on the scene. The band has garnered radio support for their previous singles ‘Can’t Put You Down’, on Radio X with John Kennedy, BBC Introducing and Ireland’s RTE Radio 1, and for ‘Neon’ on influential radio stations globally including KXTE Las Vegas (U.S.); Radio Doble Nueve (Peru), Radio 1 (India), 2XM (Ireland), WNNX Atlanta, GA (U.S.), Flux FM in Stuttgart / Berlin (Germany), KWSS Phoenix, AZ
(U.S.) 

ACROBVT - A Thousand Times

Three minds meet in different time zones and seek to coalesce for under 3 minutes.  They ended up in the 90s to and found Some Kind of Bliss.

SOME KIND OF BLISS - Arpraxis - RogueFX - Mayah Camara

Recorded during Chinese New Year at my in-laws in Ningbo, all I had available to me was a 14 year old laptop with an old version of Sony Acid, an acoustic guitar and not much else. I grabbed a recorder and a harmonica before leaving Hangzhou so I could add a little something extra to arrangements and then just used whatever was lying around for percussion, including a cardboard box and a container of toothpicks. Taking out all the treble on the very basic 3 band DAW EQ and pushing the mids a little thankfully means an acoustic guitar can magically become a bass. I finished mixing the EP in a B&B in the Zhejiang countryside. No plugins on the laptop so no delay, reverb, compression or any of that gubbins. 

Free to download right here 👇

https://blokeacola.bandcamp.com/album/shoulda

Perfect Silence

Montez dans ma fusée

"Living Mannequin" talks about the need to become what fashion and today’s world demand us to be in order to be accepted by society: different.
We’re expected to be unlike anything that ever existed, to reject our roots and the teachings passed down by our parents—ignoring knowledge in favor of a new world order that claims all of humanity’s acquired wisdom has become obsolete with the rise of A.I.
We have to be strange in order to be original.

Living Mannequin

Why be so different?
Why not be more normal?
If everything I see looks just the same,
Then the weird one is the original.
Why not be reversed?
The opposite of that basic verse;
If I wear red, tattoo on my knee,
Hair, a hat or some All Stars on me.

Making faces and poses,
Walking back and forth all day;
Drinking, smoking... doing dumb stuff,
Living just to impress in some way.
Pulling out sighs,
From people who just watch TV;
They search and don’t find, they look but don’t see
What’s really worth living to be...

Selling their own universe,
In exchange for some dumb stares;
The dream is money, death is the mirror,
Living in a harbor with no piers there...
Gaining experience,
In what they don’t want to learn;
Fashion sets the routine,
In minds where “to have” beats “to be” at every turn...

******************** PORTUGUESE

Manequim Vivo fala sobre a necessidade de sermos o que a moda e o mundo atuais exigem que sejamos, para sermos aceitos na sociedade: Diferentes. 
Temos de ser diferentes de tudo que já existiu, renegar nossas origens e os aprendizados passados por nossos pais, ignorando o conhecimento em pról de uma nova ordem mundial, a qual dita que todo o conhecimento da humanidade adquirido se tornou obsoleto, com a chegada da A.I.
Temos de ser estranhos para sermos originais.

Por que ser tão diferente?
Por que não ser tão normal?
Se tudo que eu vejo, parece com o mesmo,
O estranho é o original;
Por que não ser reverso?
Inverso do verso vulgar;
Se eu uso vermelho, tatoo no joelho,
Cabelo, chapéu ou All Star;
Fazendo caras e bocas;
Andando pra lá e pra cá;
Bebendo, fumando...fazendo besteira;
Vivendo pra impressionar;
Provocando suspiros;
Do povo que só vê tv;
Procura e não acha, enxerga e não vê;
O que vale a pena viver...
Vendendo ser próprio universo;
A troco dos olhos boçais;
O sonho é o dinheiro, a morte é o espelho;
Vivendo num porto sem cais...
Ganhando experiência...
No que não se quer aprender;
A moda dita a rotina;
Na mente ter ou não ser...

Living Mannequin (Manequim Vivo)

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Come Correct

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